Why antagonize the community by pulling repos if they only wanted the brains?

wmf · on March 25, 2015

Apple has a 1984-like policy about acquisitions where they erase any trace of the acquired company, and they follow this policy to a fault.

zak_mc_kracken · on March 25, 2015

The irony s thick considering that landmark 1984 ad they published during the Superbowl...

Apple used to claim to fight against Big Brother, today they are largely seen as Big Brother.

Thank god for Android for keeping them honest.

lbarrett · on March 25, 2015

Isn't following a policy like that at all a fault?

Gigablah · on March 25, 2015

Yes, if putting "Apple" and "1984-like" in the same sentence wasn't obvious enough :)

spiralpolitik · on March 25, 2015

Two good reasons:

1. Why waste resources in maintaining something you don't intend to continue to support.

2. Given the litigious nature of the US, Apple probably doesn't want to deal with a codebase that could include all kinds of potential legal issues that are now suddenly Apples problem.